We are passionate about imparting the knowledge gained in our 25+ years’ of running organisations from rapid growth start-ups to turning around underperforming operations.
Our partnership approach ensures all challenges are viewed through a commercial lens and we always put ourselves in the shoes of shareholders, directors, and executives to understand the complexities and challenges to deliver the best outcome.
Our Why and Purpose
Graeme and Richard saw an opportunity to bring together their complimentary skills and values, the different way they think about challenges and opportunities to impart their knowledge and experience for the long-term, sustainable benefit of others.
What We Do
We support and encourage collaboration whilst identifying strategies and delivering people solutions, process improvements and technology solutions to enable companies to be thriving, profitable and sustainable businesses.
Our Team
Richard Dunks
People, Culture and Talent
“Improving the performance of business through people”.
Richard is a People, Culture and Talent Specialist with a 25+ year track record of improving the performance of businesses through their people. He partners with boards, shareholders and executives to enhance the value of organisations by identifying and delivering a range of strategic and tactical initiatives with a focus on people, culture, and talent including recruitment.
Richard coaches and mentors leaders on a range of progressive ‘fit-for-purpose’ People, Culture, and strategic Human Resources Improvement Solutions focusing on:
- Talent Management including 20+ years of Executive Search experience with a focus on C-Suite; Executive/Senior/Middle Management and Advisory Board appointments
- Developing and delivering People and Culture Strategy including organisation design & restructure
- Discovering & improving the link between an organisation’s:
Why/Purpose > Values/Behaviours > Organisational Culture > Staff Engagement - Creating and improving Performance Management Frameworks
These initiatives often uncover a range of other opportunities to improve Attraction and Sourcing Initiatives; Retention Programs, Succession and Workforce Planning.
Richard’s mantra is to teach and embed the knowledge in organisations to ensure initiatives and actions are scalable, sustainable and repeatable.
Richard is a Certified Chair™ with the Advisory Board Centre; has completed the Australian Institute of Company Directors course and has a Bachelor of Business from QUT.
Graeme Linklater
Strategy, Process and Technology
“Improving business performance through strategy, systems and process improvement”
Graeme is a senior finance executive with a with a 25+ year track record in CEO/CFO/COO roles where he has proven his ability to think strategically, improve systems, processes and outcomes that improve transform business performance.
Graeme uses his extensive CFO experience to coach, train and embed tailored ‘CFO’ solutions for private, entrepreneurial organisations. From his hands on approach to delivering strategic initiatives, his areas of expertise include:
- Review, design and implement fit-for-purpose reporting to enable businesses to make timely, commercial decisions.
- Work with and embed his knowledge on improvements to governance, processes ensuring current or future technology is an enabler to the enterprise.
- Commercially focused technology reviews including the project management and implementation of technology applications to sustained growth and major productivity improvements.
- Entrepreneurial mindset taking an ‘owners view’ in improving productivity and profitability.
- A unique blend of technical accounting, tax, legal balanced with strong analytical skills and commercially astute to identify the critical aspects to enable business success.
- An ability to conceptualise, strategise and logically consider how today’s thinking and planning impacts on the future.
Graeme is a Certified Practicing Accountant and holds a Masters of Leadership Management, Masters of Business Administration and Bachelor of Business Degree in Accounting and Business Law. He is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Join our team
At New Horizon’s, we seek talented individuals who share our passion to make an impact on others and organisations.